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I roll the pill around my palm.
From the beginning to the bomb,
The only thing I know ‘bout me is that I’m lying.
We know the structure and the form
Of the movie where we’re born.
Hey, I already read the book – it ends in dying.

With all the power of paper
A fallen tower of coin
The drugs make us safer,
But a judgment comes joined:
When you end, you will know what you weren’t ever.

And chemicals dream to be my soul,
Though my veins are blue and full
With miracles of modern hearts, be their end futile.
The gifts of parents gone at last,
When all this chemistry is past,
But you will show me truth and I will call it brutal.

With all the power of paper
A fallen tower of coin
The drugs make us safer,
But a judgment comes joined:
You will change for sure, and maybe for the better.

And though I never formed a plan,
I changed what was to who I am,
Cut my cocoon, I guess, my transformation shoddy.
But, when I come upon the pond,
I touch the shimmer, taste the song,
And lose all nerve except those threaded through my body.

With all the power of paper
A fallen tower of coin
The drugs make us safer,
But a judgment comes joined:
Why should you worry ‘bout the stories of the cosmos?

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from Bad Life, released November 6, 2012
Emmalee Hunnicutt - cello

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